Yes, I heard something similar. That part of the reason Nixon took us off the gold standard was that France after WWII had all of these American dollars that had been poured into France for the rebuilding and the French being, well, the French, were bringing them into America and cashing them in for gold and taking the gold back to France. I doubt France was the only one doing that and likely it was really the deep state / bloodline families in France (and elsewhere) behind that scheme, but Nixon from this perspective actually helped America by ending the gold standard when he did.